Waken Thou With Me
This week’s poem is “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and I have chosen it for Ingrid: a poet, painter and friend who is fond of Tennyson’s poetry.
Keep Your Fancy Free
This week’s choice is Part VIII of “A Shropshire Lad” by A.E. Housman and is generally known as “When I Was One-and-Twenty”.
Warm-lit For My Love and Me
This week’s choice is also by E. Nesbit, and it’s “St. Valentine’s Day.” I have chosen it for my lovely Rachel, for her daughter Emily and her fiancé Forrest who have just booked their wedding date and venue and for Andy & Tracey, friends who recently announced their engagement.
Make Dreams Truths
This week’s poem “The Dream” is by John Donne, and it expresses the joy of love and the fear of unworthiness.
May Your Heart be Wild and Free
This week’s choice is in honour of my granddaughter Rosie, born this week. I wish her and her parents Tom and Charl a lifetime of love and happiness.
A Moment of Breathless Delight
This week’s choice is the song “Red and Black” from Les Misérables because it was running round my head earlier.
Love Beyond the Stars
This week’s choice is Alfred Noyes’s “Song” which I have chosen for Nicola, whose birthday was on 19th August.
The Yellow God Forever Gazes Down
This week’s choice is the tragic story of Mad Carew and “The Green Eye of the Yellow God” by J. Milton Hayes.